NGC 4993 and GRB170817A after glow

Författare/Upphovsman:

Hubble Space Telescope, NASA and ESA

Kreditera:

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-missions-catch-first-light-from-a-gravitational-wave-event

Kort länk:

https://www.sewiki.info/b/7c8fe

Källa:

Wikimedia Commons

Upplösning:

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Beskrivning:

On August 17, 2017, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory detected gravitational waves from a neutron star collision. Within 12 hours, observatories had identified the source of the event within the galaxy NGC 4993, shown in this Hubble Space Telescope image, and located an associated stellar flare called a kilonova (box). Inset: Hubble observed the kilonova fade over the course of six days.

Licens:

Public domain